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“You said much less than you might, and no more than you should.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“There is something strange at work in this land. I distrust the silence. I distrust even the pale Moon. The stars are faint; and I am weary as I have seldom been before, weary as no Ranger should be with a clear trail to follow. There is some will that lends speed to our foes and sets an unseen barrier before us: a weariness that is in the heart more than in the limb.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till the lightning falls.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Then”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Benim fikrim güneşin birkaç kez doğup batmasıyla değişmez.”
― Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien

“Faramir smiled." A pert servant, Master Samwise. But nay: the praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards. I had no lure or desire to do other than what I have done. "
"Ah well, sir," said Sam, "you said my master had an elvish air; and that was good and true. But I can say this: you have an air too, sir, that reminds me of, of--well, Gandalf, of wizards."
"Maybe," said Faramir. "Maybe you discern from far away the air of Númenor. Good night!”
― J. R. R. Tolkien

“For as the Rohirrim do, we now love war and valour as things good in themselves, both a sport and an end; and”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“On silver necklaces they strung
The flowering stars, on crowns they hung
The dragon-fire, in twisted wire
They meshed the light of moon and sun.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Things are drawing to the end now, unless
I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up! You _may_ come through all right. "[said Gandalf]”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit or There and Back Again

“Tampoco ahora se inmutó Éowyn: doncella de Rohan, descendiente de reyes, flexible como un junco pero templada como el acero, hermosa pero terrible.”
― JRR Tolkien

“Yes, that’s so,’ said Sam. ‘And we shouldn’t be here at all, if we’d known more about it before we started. But I suppose it’s often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually – their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on – and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same – like old Mr. Bilbo. But those aren’t always the best tales to hear, though they may be the best tales to get landed in! I wonder what sort of a tale we’ve fallen into?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Westron”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“He called it the Carrock, because carrock is his word for it. He calls things like that carrocks, and this one is the Carrock because it is the only one near his home and he knows it well.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“a notion of his that the kindness of dear Mr. Frodo was of such a high degree that”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings: One Volume

“Often does hatred hurt itself”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Fly, you fools!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“He cannot be both tyrant and counsellor”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“In later days he [Olórin] dearly loved the Children of Eru, and took pity on their sorrows. Those who hearkened to him arose from despair; and in their hearts the desire to heal and to renew awoke, and thoughts of fair things that had not yet been but might yet be made for the enrichment of Arda.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien

“Good night, captain, my lord,' he said. 'You took the chance, sir.'
'Did I so?' said Faramir.
Yes sir, and showed your quality: the very highest.'
Faramir smiled. 'A pert servant, Master Samwise. But nay: the praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards. But there was naught in this to praise. I had no lure or desire to do other than I have done.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“inimitable”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“We shall all need the endurance of Dwarves. But come! With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter! We will make such as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves, and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by Tolkien, J.R.R. (2 Rep Sub Edition) [Hardcover(1988)]

“That land the Valar called Andor, the Land of Gift; and the Star of Eärendil shone bright in the West as a token that all was made ready, and as a guide over the sea; and Men marvelled to see that silver flame in the paths of the Sun.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

“Very good, sir [Frodo]!'
'You [Sam] still mean to come with me?'
'I do'
'It is going to be very dangerous, Sam. It is already dangerous. Most likely neither of us will come back'.
'If you don't come back, sir, then I shan't, that's certain,' said Sam. 'Don't you leave him! they (the Elves] said to me. Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of those Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Though here at journey’s end I lie
In darkness buried deep,
Beyond all towers strong and high,
Beyond all mountains steep,
Above all shadows rides the Sun
And Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
Nor bid the Stars farewell.”
― J R R Tolkien

“Soon Bilbo caught glimpses of them as the darkness deepened. He loved elves, though he seldom met them; but he was a little frightened of them too.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Thus they held vigil in the night of Valinor, and their thought passed back beyond Eä and forth to the End; yet neither power nor wisdom assuaged their grief, and the knowing of evil in the hour of its being.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

“He beat the creature off with his hands”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“In describing a fairy-story which they think adults might possibly read for their own entertainment, reviewers frequently indulge in such waggeries as: ‘this book is for children from the ages of six to sixty’. But I have never yet seen the puff of a new motor-model that began thus: ‘this toy will amuse infants from seventeen to seventy’; though that to my mind would be much more appropriate.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Save me, Lord,
from lying lips
and from deceitful tongues.”
― d

“Then there is the nuncheon, at noon or after as duties allow; and men gather for the daymeal, and such mirth as there still may be, about the hour of sunset.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings